Conspiracy Quotes - Page 8

• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Cripples

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Running, Men, Risk

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• Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

  Ben Stein

  Believe, Book, Legends

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• The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fda, Evil

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• There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

  Ray McKinnon

  Writing, Humility, Found You

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• Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  World, Corporations, Politician

  "The I in the Triangle". Speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California, 1990.

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• The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

  Peter Thiel

  Entrepreneur, Secret, World

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.83, Crown Business

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• The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

  Shane Smith

  Citizens, Propaganda, Coups

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sarcasm, Uggs, Warfare

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• I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

  Derek Landy

  Littering, Murder, Skulduggery Pleasant

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• The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Desert, Belief

  "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Varieties of Envy)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1995.

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.176, e-artnow sro

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• History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Chaos, Conspiracy Theory, Products

  "Quotation of the Day". The New York Times, January 18, 1981.

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• I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman’s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It’s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

  David Wong

  Moving, Book, Kids

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan

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• So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Jobs, Believe, School

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• For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hands, Unseen, World

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

  China Mieville

  Foolish

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• Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beautiful, Plot, Add

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• The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Government, Law, United States

  "Rice defends US policy". news.bbc.co.uk. December 5, 2005.

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• One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Party, Mean, Practice

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• (It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions.

  Benedict Fitzgerald

  Dark, Age, Medical

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• Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Trying, May

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• One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.317, Hoover Press

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